UN High Commissioner for Human Rights report to UN General Assembly on discriminatory laws, practices, acts of violence against LGBT people mentions intersex six times

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WE would like to acknowledge the mention of intersex people in this report on discriminatory laws and practices and acts of violence against individuals based on their sexual orientation and gender identity. United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay’s report on LGBT people that contains six mentions of the word intersex, as illustrated…
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UK intersex woman Sarah Graham writes a letter to her body

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SARAH Graham is a therapist and counsellor in the UK who was born with the intersex variation Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome (AIS). AIS, along with CAH and XXY is one of the most common biological variations underlying intersex. She and her family were lied to by doctors from the age of eight until she learned the…
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African Activist: Kenya’s Landmark Intersex Case

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THE case of Richard Muasya, a Kenyan intersex person who has been persecuted by the state for being intersex, forcing him into a life of crime in order to survive, is reported on by the African Activist website. The report includes a link to the judges’ ruling: A landmark court case filed by Richard Muasya,…
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Courthouse News Service: Woman Locked in a Men’s Prison

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COMPOUNDING damage already done by an Hawaiian prison system that locked her up in a gaol for men, the Courthouse News Service reports personal medical information about intersex woman Dione Kaeo-Tomaselli: A hermaphrodite who underwent surgery to become a woman claims Hawaii incarcerated her in a men’s prison where she was, predictably, raped. The 33-year-old…
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United Nations Committee against Torture makes historic statement on intersex, redress for intersex genital mutilation (IGM), education and more

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United Nations Committee against Torture makes historic statement on intersex, redress for intersex genital mutilation (IGM), education and more

THE UN Committee against Torture sitting in Germany from October 31 to November 25 2011 has considered a German report on torture and other abuses and has produced a groundbreaking statement on intersex and torture: Intersex people 20. The Committee takes note of the information received during the dialogue that the Ethical Council has undertaken…
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Dr Michela Balocchi speaks at V Congresso dell’Associazione Radicale Certi Diritti in Milano – ‘Intersex e diritti negati: quali battaglie comuni con il movimento GLBT(E) in Italia?’, 2-4 December 2011

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DR Michela Balocchi is an activist and ally of intersex people in Italy. She recently gave a presentation on the treatment of intersex people in Italy and the similarities in the struggles for fundamental human rights between intersex people and LGBT people. Note: This illustrated audio recording is in Italian.

Malawi: a case of female genital mutilation (FGM)

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FEMALE genital mutilation (FGM) remains entrenched in many parts of the world, alongside intersex genital mutilation (IGM). FGM is more commonly practised outside the so-called first world whereas IGM is more commonly carried out in the so-called first world.  OII regards both practices as violations of human rights and human bodies. We call on all…
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